Monsoon is fast approaching in Southern Arizona. AprilMadisonWX takes an in-depth look at the Santa Cruz River's record flood of 1983 .
TUCSON, Ariz. — “One day my wife and I were flying from Boston to Tucson. And as we came to Tucson, the Rillito River, we came during a rainstorm, and the Rillito River, you could see a wall of water rushing down the Rillito. It was a pretty spectacular sight and you got to see that. We got to see that from the plane.”
"As a matter of fact, the first monsoon I saw, I was working up in the San Carlos reservation, and I came down to Tucson to visit and I came down during the monsoon. And back then the sewer system wasn't all that good. And Speedway flooded. It must have flooded about a foot and a half height. And it was just amazing.”
"When you look up at the Rillito River just to the north of us, they had 170 days of flow in the Rillito this year. In past years even when we had monsoon, good monsoons, it was 60, 70, maybe 80 days.” "Where there’s not bank protection, Pima County has established what’s called safe setbacks from those erosion hazard areas. So, depending on the size of the wash, you may have to be 25 feet away from it, but for those bigger washes where there’s no bank protection, 500 feet may be the norm,” says Cuffari.“Pima County Flood Control, along with several non-governmental agencies, have developed what is called a Santa Cruz River Management Plan and Living River Management Plan.
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